smoke-framework vs Express

smoke-framework

A light-weight server-side service framework written in the Swift programming language. (by amzn)

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Express

Swift Express is a simple, yet unopinionated web application server written in Swift (by crossroadlabs)

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smoke-framework		Express
	Project
4	Mentions	-
1,425	Stars	847
0.1%	Growth	-0.2%
6.5	Activity	0.0
3 months ago	Latest Commit	over 5 years ago
Swift	Language	Swift
Apache License 2.0	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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smoke-framework

Posts with mentions or reviews of smoke-framework. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-15.

Swift outside the Apple ecosystem
8 projects | /r/swift | 15 Apr 2023

Also look at: Hummingbird https://github.com/hummingbird-project/hummingbird Smoke https://github.com/amzn/smoke-framework Swift NIO https://github.com/apple/swift-nio
I love Swift but I don't use it
7 projects | /r/swift | 28 Aug 2022

Here’s our micro service framework: https://github.com/amzn/smoke-framework
Now that Google jettisoned Swift for TensorFlow, is Swift effectively an Apple language?
1 project | /r/swift | 22 Feb 2021

They released the Smoke framework, which uses NIO for HTTP.
Swift for TensorFlow Shuts Down
13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Feb 2021

AWS has a Swift runtime for Lambda [0], and Amazon has an open source server framework for Swift, Smoke [1].
[0] - https://swift.org/blog/aws-lambda-runtime/
[1] - https://github.com/amzn/smoke-framework

Express

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing smoke-framework and Express you can also consider the following projects:

Vapor - 💧 A server-side Swift HTTP web framework.

Swifton - A Ruby on Rails inspired Web Framework for Swift that runs on Linux and OS X

swifter - Tiny http server engine written in Swift programming language.

Dynamo - High Performance (nearly)100% Swift Web server supporting dynamic content.

Perfect - Server-side Swift. The Perfect core toolset and framework for Swift Developers. (For mobile back-end development, website and API development, and more…)

Jobs - A job system for Swift backends.

Kitura - A Swift web framework and HTTP server.

SwiftGD - A simple Swift wrapper for libgd

Edge - A Swift Multiplatform Single-threaded Non-blocking Web and Networking Framework

Embassy - Super lightweight async HTTP server library in pure Swift runs in iOS / MacOS / Linux